Science Week 2025 has been a busy period for the Met Éireann team, with a special collaboration with Teagasc, a dedicated series on the RTÉ evening weather broadcasts, and a host of school visits and other events taking place.
November 14th, 2025
Under the theme of “Then. Today. Tomorrow.”, and once again supported by Research Ireland, this year’s Science Week featured a packed schedule of events nationwide, to celebrate science in our everyday lives.
Met Éireann’s activities kicked off with the Let’s Talk Science Festival at the Rediscovery Centre in Dublin 9, where the team presented a display of weather instruments, as well as offering visitors the opportunity to experience being a weather presenter, using our green screen technology.
Gráinne Connolly, Dr Colin Evans, Dr Chang Liu and Dr Darshana Jayakumari at the Let’s Talk Science Festival
Undoubtedly one of the highlights of this year’s festivities was the “Clouds, Crops and Climate” webinar, hosted as a collaboration between Met Éireann and Teagasc on November 11th.
Over 3,000 Junior Cycle and transition year students and science teachers attended the interactive event and were treated to a series of presentations from meteorologist, Aoife Kealy, agricultural meteorologist, Dr. Klara Finkele, climatologist, Dr Pádraig Flattery, and colleagues from Teagasc, exploring the links between weather, agriculture and climate.
As all that was happening online, meteorologist, Ailís Hankinson was at St Olaf’s National School in Dublin 16 to meet with fifth class students and show them how to build their own weather stations.
A pupil from St Olaf’s National School in Dublin with their self-made wind gauge
The following day saw members of the Dublin Airport-based team taking part in its Airside Safety Day, where they exhibited weather instruments and discussed what Met Éireann does onsite, while meteorologist, Dr Noel Fitzpatrick went to UCD to talk to physics students about satellite meteorology, his background in glacier and climate research, and his hobby of storm chasing.
Dr Noel Fitzpatrick speaks to physics students at UCD
November 13th was a particularly busy day, with meteorologist, Kyle Lee spending the morning with sixth class pupils at St Colmcille’s Boys National School in Swords, introducing them to the science of weather and encouraging them to pursue STEM subjects, as Thomas Townsend from the Observations Division visited St Fergal’s College in Rathdowney, Co Laois to meet second year students for an interactive session on the science of measuring weather.
Thomas Townsend presenting to students at St Fergal’s College
Elsewhere in Co Laois, meteorologist, Andrew Doran-Sherlock delivered a presentation on ‘Weather Forecasting and the Evolution of Our Climate Through History’ at Abbeyleix Library.
Although officially falling outside the Science Week window, Met Éireann’s activities will conclude with meteorologist, Gerry Murphy’s visit to Dundalk Library on November 18th, where he will speak to schoolchildren about the work of a forecaster and the importance of understanding weather.